Chinese ancient poetry art songs not only represents the artistic works created by Chinese ancient poetry and modern composers, but also reflects the historical significance and academic value of Chinese traditional culture. With Mandarin Chinese as our first language, we can get a better feel of the unique charm of art songs and the passion in the content while intuitively understanding the meaning and emotional interpretation of Chinese ancient poetry art songs. The primary research approach that the author has chosen is to explore how to better interpret Chinese ancient poetry art songs. Taking the analysis of the artistic characteristics of the song Man Jiang Hong and its performance as the research objective, this thesis mainly includes the following three parts. In the first part, analysis of the ancient poetry and the background of the song are introduced to gain an in-depth understanding. In the second part, this musical composition and its singing performances are analyzed in detail for further elaboration. Finally, the third part offers a summary of key learning points based on the author’s own study and experience in vocal music training.

Man Jiang Hong is known as a poem written by Yue Fei（岳飛）, a famous war hero in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was later adapted into a well-known Chinese ancient poetry art song by Yang Yin-Liu（楊蔭瀏）, a famous modern musicologist. During the process of the research on Man Jiang Hong, four other versions under the same title was discovered by the author, respectively composed by Lin Sheng-Xi（林聲翕）, Huang Fu-Tang（黃輔棠）, Zhou Na-Tian（周拿天）, and Gu Jia-Hui（顧嘉輝）. This thesis will analyze the similarities and specific characteristics of the five versions of the song, using the terms Yang’s version to refer to songs compiled by Yang Yin-Liu（楊蔭瀏）, Lin’s version to refer to songs written by Lin Sheng-xXi（林聲翕）, Huang’s version to refer to songs written by Huang Fu-Tang（黃輔棠）, Zhou’s version refers to songs written by Zhou Na-Tian（周拿天）, and Gu’s version refers to songs written by Gu Jia-Hui（顧嘉輝） .

As a form of communication medium, ancient poetry art songs present ancient poems through the composition of songs and form a literary artistic genre through reprocessing and re-creation, and thus, conveying the essense and unique charm of the Chinese culture. The author will strive to contribute to the spreading of the Chinese Culture through through this analysis of the interpretation of the five songs.